The bird of paradise, and other poems

-!?)

I'' ■35.

nm^ "■ ^ '^■

■A.

|-|VJ.J0>' '-^^OJllVJ-Ji

Digitized by the Internet Archive
^^.^cnv//. .-vM in 2008 with funding from
IVIicrosoft Corporation

.^- ^

^ ^

M

http://www.archive.or3/detaiis/birdofparadiseot00davi ^^

JDNVSOl^'

LIBKARY/?/:

J

•CALIFO;?^
:-l!N!VP?y//^.

[•UN1VER5//,

OJilVJiO'

THE BIRD OF PARADISE

^

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

POETRY

The Soul's Destroyer and other Poems {1906)

New Poems (1907)

Nature Poems and Others (1908)

Farewell to Poesy (1910)

Songs of Joy (1911)

Foliage (1913)

PROSE
The Autobiography of a Supertramp (1907)
Beggars (1909)
A Weak Woman (1911)
The True Traveller (1912)
Nature {1914)

THE
BIRD OF PARADISE

AND OTHER POEMS

BY

W. H. DAVIES

METHUEN & GO. LTD.

36 ESSEX STREET W.C,

LONDON

First Published in igi4

NOTE

For permission to reprint these poems
the author thanks the editors of the
following magazines : The Nation, The New
Statesman, The Westminster Gazette, The
New Weekly, and Poetry and Drama.

;6116S

Contents

Page

When I am Old . . . .13

Two Spring Songs .

15

The Best Friend

17

Heaven

19

Sweet Night

20

Early Spring

21

The Mind's Liberty .

23

The Two Spirits

24

When on a Summer's Morn

26

Again I Sing

27

The Dumb World .

29

The Weeping Child .

32

The Den

34

This World .

36

lO

The Bird of Paradise

A Fleeting Passion .

Plants and Men

A Midsummer Night's Storm

The Dreaming Boy .

The Hawk .

The Signs

The Long Sleep

The Moon .

A Great Time

Her Absence

The Wanderer

The Child and the Man

The Black Cloud

When I in Praise

Sweet Child

In a Garden .

The Life Divine

Love's Youth

Rich Days

Page

Contents

Near a Quiet Stream

The Child Chatters

The Hermit .

In the End .

The lEmigrant

The Collier's Wife

Stars

Come, Let Me Close

On the Mountain

Infancy

In Silent Groves

The Rev, Ebenezer Paul

Nell Barnes .

The Bird of Paradise

I I

Page
67

68

70
72

73
75
76
78

79
80

81

82

83
85

The Bird of Paradise

When I am Old

WHEN I am old, and it is spring,
And joy leaps dancing, wild and free,
Clear out of every living thing,
While I command no ecstasy ;
And to translate the songs of birds
Will be beyond my power in words :

When Time serves notice on my Muse

To leave at last her lyric home,
With no extension of her lease —

Then to the blackest pits I come,
To see by day the stars' cold light,
And in my coffin sleep at night.

14 When I am Old

For when these little songs shall fail,
These happy notes that to the world

Are puny mole-hills, nothing more,
That unto me are Alps of gold —

That toad's dark life must be my own,

Buried alive inside a stone.

Two Spring Songs 15

Two Spring Songs

From France

WHAT little bird is this that sings ?
I wonder if he comes from France :
Lord, how he sings, and makes our leaves

In happy England dance !
What's in his song ; is it sweet laughter,
Or anger that he crossed the water ?

A song of roses, apples, corn,

Seen here in England — not his home ;

Or lilies, olives, and the grapes
In France, across the foam ?

No matter, little friend from France —

Sing till our leaves in England dance.

Starers
The small birds peck at apples ripe.
And twice as big as them in size ;

1 6 Two Spring Songs

The wind doth make the hedge's leaves

Shiver with joy, until it dies.
Young Gossamer is in the field ;

He holds the flowers with silver line —
They nod their heads as horses should.

And there are forty dappled kine
As fat as snails in deep, dark wells,

And just as shiny too — as they
Lie in a green field, motionless,

And every one now stares my way.
I must become a starer too :

I stare at them as urchins can
When seamen talk, or any child

That sees by chance its first black man.
I stare at drops of rain that shine

Like glow-worms, when the time is noon ;
I stare at little stars in Heaven,

That try to stare like the big Moon.

The Best Friend 17

The Best Friend

Now shall I walk,
Or shall I ride ?
" Ride," Pleasure said ;
" Walk," Joy replied.

Now what shall I —
Stay home or roam ?

" Roam," Pleasure said ;
And Joy — " Stay home."

Now shall I dance.

Or sit for dreams ?
" Sit," answers Joy ;

" Dance," Pleasure screams.
2

i8 The Best Friend

Which of ye two
Will kindest be ?

Pleasure laughed sweet,
But Joy kissed me.

Heaven 19

Heaven

THAT paradise the Arab dreams,
Is far less sand and more fresh streams.
The only heaven an Indian knows,
Is hunting deer and buffaloes.
The Yankee heaven — to bring Fame forth
By some freak show of what he's worth.
The heaven that fills an English heart,
Is Union Jacks in every part.
The Irish heaven is heaven of old.
When Satan cracked skulls manifold.
The Scotsman has his heaven to come —
To argue his Creator dumb.
The "Welshman's heaven is singing airs —
No matter who feels sick and swears.

20 Sweet Night

Sweet Night

SWEET Night, that like an angel comes
To take this bright and happy Day,
A lover gives his grateful heart,
For starlight on his way.

Lord, how my heart goes forth in joy,
How my brave spirits soar and rise !

To think how Love's advancing lips
Will shut Love's joyful eyes.

What loving looks of serious care.
What tender sweetness she will give !

Such love a mother gives that child
She fears she will outlive.

Early Spring 21

Early Spring

How sweet this morning air in spring,
When tender is the grass, and wet
I see some little leaves have not

Outgrown their curly childhood yet ;
And cows no longer hurry home,
However sweet a voice cries " Come."

Here, with green Nature all around.
While that fine bird the skylark sings ;

Who now in such a passion is,
He flies by it, and not his wings ;

And many a blackbird, thrush and sparrow

Sing sweeter songs than I may borrow.

22 Early Spring

These watery swamps and thickets wild —
Called Nature's slums — to me are more

Than any courts where fountains play,
And men-at-arms guard every door ;

For I could sit down here alone,

And count the oak trees one by one.

The Mind's Liberty 23

The Mind's Liberty

THE mind, with its own eyes and ears,
May for these others have no care ;
No matter where this body is,

The mind is free to go elsewhere.
My mind can be a sailor, when

This body's still confined to land ;
And turn these mortals into trees,

That walk in Fleet Street or the Strand.

So, when I'm passing Charing Cross,

Where porters work both night and day,
I ofttimes hear sweet Malpas Brook,

That flows thrice fifty miles away.
And when I'm passing near St. Paul's,

I see, beyond the dome and crowd,
Twm Barium, that green pap in Gwent,

With its dark nipple in a cloud.

24 The Two Spirits

The Two Spirits

MY friend, mad drunk, struck, at his foe,
"When 1 received the cruel blow ;
No sooner saw my broken tooth.
He wept, and wiped my bloody mouth.

Then came a message from his wife —
" Come now, and see his last of life."
But when I reached his room and bed,
The man was lying cold and dead.

Now when I stood beside his bier,

I felt two spirits standing near ;

The one said — " Look : his knuckles show

The toothmark where he struck a blow."

The Two Spirits 25

" Think not of that," the other said —
" Have pity on him cold and dead."
" You took no vengeance for that blow,"
The first one said — " it's too late now ! "

r

Shame on my soul for vengeance nursed.
That, laughing in my heart, I cursed
The hand, now dead, that broke my tooth —
Although it wiped my bloody mouth.

26 When on a Summer's Morn

When on a Summer's Morn

WHEN on a summer's morn I wake,
And open my two eyes,
Out to the clear, born-singing rills
My bird-like spirit flies.

To hear the Blackbird, Cuckoo, Thrush,

Or any bird in song ;
And common leaves that hum all day,

Without a throat or tongue.

And when Time strikes the hour for sleep,

Back in my room alone.
My heart has many a sweet bird's song —

And one that's all my own.

Again I Sing 27

Again I Sing

AGAIN I sing of thee, sweet youth :
L Thy hours are minutes, they can hear
No challenge from stern sentinels,

To wake their fear ;
You love the flowers, but feel no grief
Because their pretty lives are brief.

Nature sets no conspirators

Of withered things to lie in wait

And show thee with their faded charms
Thy coming state ;

No dread example she sets thee

In dead things falling off a tree.

28 Again I Sing

Thou seest no bones inside the earth,
Thy sweat comes not of toil, but play ;

On thy red blossom no pale worm
Can work decay ;

No toad can muddy thy clear spring —

Time is thy subject, thou his king !

The Dumb World 29

The Dumb World

SHALL I collect for this world's eyes
My sins in birds or butterflies ;
Shall I keep useless things around,
For ornament, and sell my hound ?
When I give poor dumb things my cares.
Let all men know I've said my prayers.
That man who sells for gain his hound
May he be robbed and beaten found ;
May men that shoot sweet singing-birds
Be robbed of power to utter words ;
May men that torture things alive
Live for a hundred years, and have
Their wretched bodies stabbed with pains,
Until their toe-nails pierce their brains.
My love for dumb things is intense :
I cannot walk beside a fence

30 The Dumb World

And see the horses in a row,
Starhig, but I must say Hallo !
And when I see two horses lean
Across a gate that stands between
Them as they kiss each other there —
For no man's company I care.
I hate to leave the calf when he,
Licking his tongue, still follows me,
To lick again at my old clothes.
A lamb that lets me stroke his nose
Can make me feel a battle won
That had ten soldiers to my one.
I'd rather see the sheep and kine
Than any troops that march in line.
With all their colours in the light.
Helmets and scabbards shining bright.
When I give robins cheerful words,
I'm pleased to see those grateful birds
Try on their little feet to dance.
And eyeing me with consequence.

The Dumb World 31

Had I at home a talking bird

That would repeat a wicked word,

I would not care a fig or apple

For my own hymns in church or chapel.

Had I a monkey that would drink

My ale and, when I sit to think.

Would mock me with his scornful cries —

I, thinking less, would grow more wise ;

With him I'd sit and drink and play.

And save the world this worthless lay.

32 The Weeping Child

The Weeping Child

WHAT makes thee weep so, little child,
What cause hast thou for all this grief?
When thou art old much cause may be,
And tears will bring thee no relief.

Thou dost not know thy mother yet,

Thou'dst sleep on any bosom near ;
Thou dost not see a daughter dying,

No son is coughing in thy ear.

Thy father is a bearded man.

Yet any bearded man could take
Thee in his arms, and thou not know

Which man would die for thy sweet sake.

The Weeping Child 33

What makes thee weep then, little child,
What cause hast thou for all this bother ;

Whose father could be any man,
And any woman be thy mother ?

34

The Den

The Den

THEY sleep together in one den,
Ten in a row — ten beds, ten men ;
Three dying men are in that room,
Whose coughs at night will soon become
Death's rattle : drunkards in bed
Sound as they worried things half dead.

Jim Lasker dreamt, when in that den.
He saw ten beds that had ten men ;
One sleeper in a sack was sewn.
With nothing of his features shown :
Jim felt that face he could not see —
" This face is mine, I'm dead," said he.

The Den 35

" James Lasker, you're the last to rise ;
Wake up, wake up ! " the master cries.
" You've not paid me for daylight's sleep —
Suppose you had some kids to keep ?
Ah, now I see : this man of mine
Came here to die, not sleep — the swine ! "

36 This World

This World

WHO dreams a sweeter life than this,
To stand and stare, when at this fenc
Back into those dumb creatures' eyes.

And think we have their innocence —
Our looks as open as the skies.

Lambs with their legs and noses black,
Whose woolly necks, so soft and white,

Can take away the children's breath ;
Who'd strangle them in their delight —

And calves they'd worry half to death.

This world's too full of those dull men
Who ne'er advance from that first state

Which opens mouth before the eye ;

Who, when they think of dumb things, rate

Them by the body's gluttony.

A Fleeting Passion 37

A Fleeting Passion

rHOU shalt not laugh, thou shalt not romp,
Let's grimly kiss with bated breath ;
LS quietly and solemnly

As Life when it is kissing Death,
low in the silence of the grave,

My hand is squeezing that soft breast ;
Vhile thou dost in such passion lie,
It mocks me with its look of rest.

lUt when the morning comes at last,

And we must part, our passions cold,
''ou'll think of some new feather, scarf

To buy with my small piece of gold ;
Lnd I'll be dreaming of green lanes.

Where little things with beating hearts
lold shining eyes between the leaves.

Till men with horses pass, and carts.

38 Plants and Men

Plants and Men

You berries once,
In early hours,
Were pretty buds,

And then fair flowers.

Drop, drop at once.

Your life is done -,
You cannot feel

The dew or sun.

We are the same,

First buds, then flowers ;
Hard berries then,

In our last hours.

Plants and Men 39

' ' Sweet buds, fair flowers,
Hard berries then —
Such is the life

Of plants and men.

40 A Midsummer Night's Storm

A Midsummer Night's Storm

NIGHT, Lightning, Thunder, Rain.
I see black Night
Open her lips ;

Her teeth gleam bright,
A moment seen ;

Then comes rich laughter ;
And happy tears,

That follow after,
Fall on the bosoms
Of birds and blossoms.

The Dreaming Boy 41

The Dreaming Boy

SWEET are thy dreams, thou happy, careless boy;
Thou know'st the taste of immortality ;
No weary limbs can rest upon thy heart ;
Sleep has no care to ease thee of at night ;
The same move shuts together eye and mind,
And in the morning one move opens both.
Life lies before thee, hardly stepped on yet,
Like a green prairie, fresh, and full of flowers.
Life lies before thee for experiment,
Until old age comes, whose sad eyes can trace
A better path he missed, with fairer flowers.
Which other men have walked in misery.
Thou hast no knowledge of a life of toil,
How hard Necessity destroys our dreams.

42 The Dreaming Boy

And castles-in-the-air must pay him tithes

So heavy that no tenants keep them long.

To thee the world is still unknown and strange ;

Still full of wild romance, as in those days

Ere England launched her forests on the sea.

Thou wilt discover in far mountains caves

Deserted, lamps left burning for thy feet,

And comfort in them more than kings are worth.

Aye, many a gate will open at thy call,

And wise men will come forth to welcome thee,

And bells will ring for pleasure in thy ear.

Great monsters in dark woods, with mighty mouths

That swallow their own faces when they yawn,

And mountain bears that carry on their backs

Rough, shaggy coats whose price compares with

silk-
Will fall by thy strong, right, all-conquering arm.
And who can stop thee ; who can turn thee back .''
Not giants, though they stand full twenty feet,
And sit too tall for common men to stand.

The Dreaming Boy 43

Oh, tKat sweet magic in thee, happy boy !
It makes a golden world for all things young.
Thou with an iron ring, a piece of bone,
A rusty blade, or half a yard of rope,
Art richer than a man with mines and ships.
The child's fresh mind makes honey out of soot.
Sweeter than age can make on banks of flowers ;
He needs but cross a bridge, that happy boy,
And he can breathe the air of a new world.
Sweet children, with your trust in this hard life —
Like little birds that ope their mouths for food
From hands that come to cage them till they die.

44 The Hawk

The Hawk

THOU dost not fly, thou art not perched,
The air is all around :
What is it that can keep thee set,

From falling to the ground ?
The concentration ot thy mind

Supports thee in the air ;
As thou dost watch the small young birds.
With such a deadly care.

My mind has such a hawk as thou,

It is an evil mood ;
It comes when there's no cause for grief,

And on my joys doth brood.
Then do I see my life in parts ;

The earth receives my bones.
The common air absorbs my mind —

It knows not flowers from stones.

The Signs 45

The Signs

FLOWERS white and red my garden has ;
So, when I miss her from my place,
I see a colour through the leaves,
And think it is her frock or face.

Here, while I sit and read old tales,
She comes to knit with needles bright ;

She shows, by how she stabs with them,
How she would punish a false knight.

And though she speaks not any word,
I see, by how she smooths the cloth —

That's stretched across from knee to knee —
She binds his wounds who bleeds for truth.

46 The Long Sleep

The Long Sleep

T

HEY press the pillow on their mother's face
and head ;
They take her by the arm to pull her out of

bed—
And still that mother sleeps and will not wake and
play.

They laugh and pull, and still their mother will

not heed ;
The pillow pressed, and yet no breath she seems to

need —
For still their mother sleeps and will not wake and

play.

The Long Sleep 47

In pity for those babes a neighbour's head is bowed ;
In pity for her grief those children sob aloud —
And more than ever wish their mother'd wake and
play.

48 The Moon

The Moon

THY beauty haunts me heart and soul,
Oh thou fair Moon, so close and bright ;
Thy beauty makes me like the child,
That cries aloud to own thy light :
The little child that lifts each arm.
To press thee to her bosom warm.

Though there are birds that sing this night
With thy white beams across their throats.

Let my deep silence speak for me

More than for them their sweetest notes :

Who worships thee till music fails,

Is greater than thy nightingales.

A Great Time 49

A Great Time

SWEET Chance, that led my steps abroad,
Beyond the town, where wild flowers grow-
A rainbow and a cuckoo. Lord,

How rich and great the times are now !
Know, all ye sheep
And cows, that keep
On staring that I stand so long

In grass that's wet from heavy rain —
A rainbow and a cuckoo's song
May never come together again ;
May never come
This side the tomb.

5°

Her Absence

Her Absence

How rich hath Time become through her,
His sands are turned to purest gold !
And yet it grieves my heart full sore

To see them slipping from my hold.
How precious now each moment is,

Which I must cast like dirt away !
My only hope and comfort this —

Each moment will return that day,
On that sweet day, that joyful hour
When she lies willing in my power.

Nay, these rich moments are not lost.
But, like the morning's dewdrops, which

Into the sun their sweet lives cast,
To make his body far more rich—

Her Absence 51

So do these precious moments glide
Into her being, where they store ;

Until I clasp her as my bride,

And get them back with thousands more ;

Where they have banked in her sweet breast,

And saved themselves with interest.

52 The Wanderer

The Wanderer

No morning breaks but he would pack,
With knapsack flung across his back,
And farther than the cuckoo roam,
Who makes no nest, and he no home.
And who he is, or where shall go.
No woman and no man shall know ;
And where he sleeps a secret is,
Only the harvest moon's and his.
And long before his meal is done,
A wandering dog shall have his bone ;
Beneath the trees, what birds are there
Shall have without a song their share.
And those that ride in coach or car.
While he's afoot, where towns are far.
Will point and say — " A beggar, he ! "
But where he shows his money free.

The Wanderer 53

For ale the best — not begs for water —
He'll hear the landlord's smiling daughter
Go whispering to her room, surprised —
*' He's some big man come here disguised ! "

r

And everywhere he goes he'll be,

To young and old, a mystery ;

And laughing in his heart, will sow

His wonder-seeds where he shall go.

For, free, he lives his simple life,

And has not risked it with a wife.

Prefers tobacco's quiet blisses

To Love's breath-mixture sealed by kisses.

Can drink his ale, for days and days,

With no one to upbraid his ways.

Has studied his own self, to find

His best friends fancies of the mind ;

More faithful friends by far than he

Shall find in human company.

Has forced his presence in no place,

To meet at last declining grace ;

^4 The Wanderer

Has always waited others' greeting,

Before he ventured on their meeting.

Since all his life has been like this,

Retiring into dreams of bliss,

Write these true words above his dust :

" He died because Age said he must ;

He gave no man or woman power

To change him from sweet looks to sour;

Society never gave him pain.

No woman broke his heart in twain ;

His body perished when his heart

Had no foul blight in any part ;

From day to day, from birth to death,

He took in joy at every breath."

The Child and the Man 55

The Child and the Man

DREAMING I was a child,
And met a man,
My fears of him were wild —
Away I ran.

The man ran after me :

" Why run away,
My little boy," said he —

" From me this day ? "

I looked with my eyes sad,
When I was caught;

His face seemed not so bad
As I first thought.

56 The Child and the Man

" I am yourself," said he :

" It gives me pain
To see you run from me —

Don't run again."

" Poor man," said I, " what made

You look so strange ?
No wonder I'm afraid,

At such a change."

He sobbed too much to speak,

He could not tell ;
And then my heart did break

With sobs as well.

The Black Cloud 57

The Black Cloud

r

LITTLE flocks of peaceful clouds,
J Lying in your fields so blue,
While my eyes look, up they see
A black Ram coming close to you.

He will scatter you poor flocks,
He will tear up north and south ;

Lightning will come from his eye,
And fierce thunder from his mouth.

Little flocks of peaceful clouds,
Soon there'll be a dreadful rout ;

That Ram's horns can toss big ships,
Tear an oak tree's bowels out.

58 When I In Praise

When I in Praise

WHEN I in praise of babies speak,
She coldly smiles like winter's snow,
And looks on me with no soft eye :
Yet I have seen her kiss them so,
Her wealth of rapture made them cry.

Sometimes it seems her blood's too cold

For Love to even wet his toes,
Much less to paddle all about ;

But when she's kissed till her eyes close,
That god is warmer in than out.

I laugh, when she for other men
Confesses love ; but when she says

She hated one man she could kill,
My heart is all one jealous blaze,

For, pity me, she hates him still !

Sweet Child 59

Sweet Child

SWEET child, that wast my bird by day,
My bird that never failed in song ;
That on my bosom wast a bee,
And layst there all night long :

No more I'll hear thy voice at noon,

For Death has pierced thee with a thorn ;

No more thou'lt sleep upon my breast.
And trample it at morn.

Then break, oh break, poor empty cage,
The bird is dead, thy use is done ;

And die, poor plant, for your sweet bee
Is gone, forever gone.

6o In a Garden

In a Garden

FAR from the sound of commerce, where the
bees
Make hollow hum that bears it half in mind,
I live ; and when those flowers of early spring —
The Daffodils of March, that own unshared
All Nature's world, nor live to see their peers,
Primroses, Violets, and Anemones —
Are overwhelmed in June's green riot, I
Sit more in my small garden, where the flowers
Are large and strong. Blue Irises are there.
Dahlias, and heavy lidded Tulips, too ;
Snapdragons, Roses, Stocks, and Marigolds,
Solomon's Seals and Canterbury Bells ;
Tall Columbines that never raise their heads.
Sweet Peas and Asters, Mignonette and Pinks,

In a Garden 6i

• *

And cat-eyed Pansies with their velvet skin ;

And Poppies, too, that with their richer hues

Make butterflies take wing or lie unseen ;

Lilies so fair they challenge all the world,

And hold in silver tumblers their gold dice.

Ready to throw and win ; and many a flower

Is there whose large, soft breast is strong enough

To suckle three or four bees at one time.

Those flowers I love, and take more pride in them

Than sailors take in wearing scarves of silk.

I watch with joy the little new-born buds.

How they just peep from half-closed eyes at morn,

And wake to find their dreams of dewdrops true.

There do I sit all through a summer's day —

Days turn without my knowledge into nights.

I sit so motionless at times that birds

Perch on the boughs that almost touch my head,

Before they see I am a thing of flesh.

So, with the poet's double sight and hearing,

I see another face behind the flower's,

62 In a Garden

I hear another voice inside the wind's —
A face and voice much sweeter than their own.
Helped by Thought's quiet midwife Solitude,
My mind brings forth a family of young dreams.

The Life Divine 63

The Life Divine

r

GIVE me the poet's life divine,
Forever fresh and young ;
The only hours that vex his soul
Are hours that give no song ;
If he but can,
A homeless man.
Turn suffering into songs divine —
That poet's life is still divine,
His life is still divine.

If but the Muse will help his soul

To sing a grief that's wild,
No faithless spouse can pull him down.
Nor disobedient child ;
Let her but prove
His faithful love,

64 The Life Divine

To sing his cares in songs divine-
That poet's life is still divine,
His life is still divine.

Love's Youth 65

Love's Youth

NOT only is my love a flower
That blooms in broad daylight,
But, like the Evening Primrose, it
Can bloom again at night.

My heart, though I have reached my prime.

It still beats fresh and young ;
I tremble at sweet Beauty's glance,

And Love is still my song.

At thy bright smile I burn and shake,
Though treated as thy brother :

Canst thou not see my eyes have twins
That laugh and call thee mother?

66 Rich Days

Rich Days

WELCOME to you rich Autumn days,
Ere comes the cold, leaf-picking wind
When golden stocks are seen in fields,

All standing arm-in-arm entwined ;
And gallons of sweet cider seen
On trees in apples red and green.

With mellow pears that cheat our teeth,

Which melt that tongues may suck them in ;

With cherries red, and blue-black plums.
Now sweet and soft from stone to skin;

And woodnuts rich, to make us go

Into the loveliest lanes we know.

JNear a Quiet Stream 67

Near a Quiet Stream

WHEN musing near a quiet stream,
Of how true, happy minds are rare ;
How some men mourn their fleeting days,

And still unhappy thoughts they bear ;
How others fear the loss of wealth,

Though much they have above their share ;
While some men strive in vain for fame,

Till pale and lean, and white their hair :
" Poor fools," thought I, amazed at this —

" Why should true happy minds be rare ?
If on these things we set no price.

Where is their power to make us care ?
Such cares, invented by ourselves,

Have no wise substance anywhere."

68 The Child Chatters

The Child Chatters

GOOD morning to my dolly first,
Good morning to my cherry tree ;
Good morning to my little chicks,
For them I love to see.

Good morning to my bow-wow-wow ;

Good morning to my bonnet new ;
Good morning to my little self,

To Dad and Mammie too.

Good morning, God which art in Heaven,
I hope you slept last night quite well ;

And please don't vex your head so much
About the devil in hell.

The Child Chatters 69

And if he bothers you too much,

And you're afraid, and you sleep bad,

Then, God which art in Heaven, you must
Have whisky, like my Dad.

70 The Hermit

The Hermit

WHAT moves that lonely man is not the boon
Of waves that break against the cliff sc
strong ;
Nor roar of thunder, when that travelling voice
Is caught by rocks that carry far along.

'Tis not the groan of oak tree in its prime,

When lightning strikes its solid heart to dust ;

Nor frozen pond when, melted by the sun,
It suddenly doth break its sparkling crust.

What moves that man is when the blind bat taps
His window when he sits alone at night ;

Or when the small bird sounds like some great beast
Among the dead, dry leaves so frail and light ;

The Hermit 71

when the moths on his night-pillow beat
5uch heavy blows he fears they'll break his bones ;

when a mouse inside the papered walls,
CJomes like a tiger crunching through the stones

72 In the End

In the End

WITH all thy gold, thou canst not make
Time sell his sand ;
With all thy cloth, a thin white shroud

Is Death's command ;
Death gives thee but a poor man's space.
With all thy land.

The beggar in his grave and thou

Must be the same ;
For neither thou nor he shall hear

Men's praise or blame ;
Though thunder and a thousand rocks

Should call thy name.

The Emigrant 73

The Emigrant

YOUTH has no ties,
So let him roam ;
Where'er he goes,

Young blood's at home.

But you, with wife
And children three,

Must leave England,
And cross the sea.

Leave her to men
That love her less ;

Thy love too great
For bitterness.

74 1 he Emigrant

When such fine souls
I see depart,

A patriot's love

Must leave my heart.

The Collier's Wife JS

The Collier's Wife

THE collier's wife had four tall sons
Brought from the pit's mouth dead,
And crushed from foot to head ;
When others brought her husband home,
Had five dead bodies in her room.

Had five dead bodies in her house —

All in a row they lay —

To bury in one day :
Such sorrow in the valley has
Made kindness grow like grass.

Oh, collier, collier, underground,

In fear of fire and gas,

What life more danger has ?
Who fears more danger in this life .''
There is but one — thy wife !

76 Stars

Stars

ONE night I saw ten stars take wing —
Like flowers to butterflies — and fly;
Then I lay down to sleep, a child,
Though when I woke a man was I.

But when I saw the stars again.

So steadfast in their heavenly home ;

The same ten thousand years ago,

The same ten thousand years to come —

Methought, what are they laughing at —
How close our cradles are to graves ?

Do they, in their eternal pride,
Make merry at our little lives ?

Stars 'j'j

And sure, the Moon was laughing too ;

The great, white Moon, that I could see
Shaking her sides, low in the west,
Like a big rattle in a tree.

yS Come, Let Me Close

Come, Let Me Close

COME, let me close thine eyes with kisses-
And those two lips that day and night
Are opened to a cherry's size,

And cry for Love to kiss them tight.
Let me enjoy thy bosom now,

Sweet Lady, let my head rock there ;
When it is wedged between thy breasts.
Throw over it thy silken hair.

Let me lie close before He comes .

To clasp thy bosom like a leech :
I mean that babe, who'll lie between.

Over whose body I must reach ;
That tyrant babe, whom thou wilt love

Above all earthly things the best :
Though laughing he will trample, kick

And knuckle into each soft breast.

On the Mountain 79

On the Mountain

WHEN from this mighty mountain's top
My wandering eyes go forth,
Trees look like bonnets, fields like flags,

In all those miles of earth.
I see afar big towns look now

Like flocks of sheep washed white ;
And villages — their straggling lambs —
May never meet my sight.

Windows — no more than drops of dew —

Are sparkling in the green ;
The sun in heaven seems small indeed.

To light so vast a scene.
A mighty stretch of land like this,

Doth make me shut my eyes ;
For when I look I fear to see

Its sudden fall or rise.

8o Infancy

Infancy

BORN to the world with my hands clenched,
I wept and shut my eyes ;
Into my mouth a breast was forced,

To stop my bitter cries.
I did not know — nor cared to know —

A woman from a man ;

Until I saw a sudden light,

And all my joys began.

From that great hour my hands went forth,

And I began to prove
That many a thing my two eyes saw

My hands had power to move :
My fingers now began to work,

And all my toes likewise ;
And reaching out with fingers stretched,

I laughed, with open eyes.

In Silent Groves 8i

In Silent Groves

MY walk is now in silent groves,
With grass and moss beneath my feet ;
Which no true poet minds can leave
Until inspired with fancies sweet.
So quiet there that you can hear

Grasshoppers in the grass so green ;
The insect-cuckoos that will call,
And still remain unseen.

In silent groves, where lovers go

To tell those dreams when they confess
That love that's jealous of the air,

And whispers in a wilderness.
There's no black scandal in these groves —

The foul disease that still breaks forth
In other parts, as fast as one

Weak part is healed by Truth.

6

82 The Rev. Ebenezer Paul

The Rev. Ebenezer Paul

HE begs from rich men for the poor,
And robs the poor of Christmas dinners.
Ah, cruel Time, to keep alive

For all these years such hoary sinners !
This hard, old man with silvery locks,

With false, white teeth — see how he fawns !
Feel in that hair, and I'll be damned
If thou'lt not find the Devil's horns !

This stack of infamy, that keeps

Dark, greedy thoughts like rats within ;
This stack that harbours gentle looks,

Like snakes with their cold, smiling skin ;
This gospel-monger, old and bland.

Who prays aloud for other sinners —
He begs from rich men for the poor,

And robs the poor of Christmas dinners.

Nell Barnes 83

Nell Barnes

THEY lived apart for three long years,
Bill Barnes and Nell his wife ;
He took his joy from other girls.
She led a wicked life.

Yet ofttimes she would pass his shop,
With some strange man awhile ;

And, looking, meet her husband's frown
With her malicious smile.

Until one day, when passing there,
She saw her man had gone ;

And when she saw the empty shop.
She fell down with a moan.

84 Nell Barnes

And when she heard that he had gone
Five thousand miles away ;

And that she'd see his face no more,
She sickened from that day.

To see his face was health and life,
And when it was denied,

She could not eat, and broke her heart-
It was for love she died.

The Bird of Paradise 85

The Bird of Paradise

HERE comes Kate Summers who, for gold,
Takes any man to bed :
" You knew my friend, Nell Barnes," said she-,
" You knew Nell Barnes — she's dead.

"Nell Barnes was bad on all you men.

Unclean, a thief as well ;
Yet all my life I have not found

A better friend than Nell.

" So I sat at her side at last,
For hours, till she was dead ;

And yet she had no sense at all
Of any word I said.

86 The Bird of Paradise

" For all her cry but came to this —
* Not for the world ! Take care :

Don't touch that bird of paradise,
Perched on the bed-post there ! '

" I asked her would she like some grapes,
Some damsons ripe and sweet ;

A custard made with new-laid eggs,
Or tender fowl to eat.

" I promised I would follow her,

To see her in her grave ;
And buy a wreath with borrowed pence.

If nothing I could save.

" Yet still her cry but came to this —
' Not for the world ! Take care :

Don't touch that bird of paradise.
Perched on the bedpost there ! '"

PRINTBD BY

WILLIAM BKENDON ANU SON, LTD.

PLYMOUTH

A FEW OF

Messrs. Methuen'S

PUBLICATIONS

New and Fortlicomitig Books are marked *

Appelt (Alfred). TFIE REAL CAUSE OF STAMMER-
ING AND ITS PERMANENT CURE. Illustrated. Crown 8vo,
3S, 6d. net.

Bain ^F. W.). IN THE GREAT GOD'S HAIR. Fifth

Edition. Fcap. 8vo, 2s. 6d. net.

A DRAUGHT OF THE BLUE. Fourth EdUioiu Fcap.

8vo, 2s. 6d. net.
AN INCARNATION OF THE SNOW. Second Edition.

Fcap. Svo, 3s. 6d. net.
A MINE OF FAULTS. Second Edition. Fcap. 8vo, 3s. 6d.

net.
A DIGIT OF THE MOON. Ninth Edition. Fcap. Svo,

■?s. 6d. net.

THE DESCENT OF THE SUN. Fifth Edition. Fcap.

Svo, 3s. 6d. net.
A HEIFER OF THE DAWN. Seventh Edition. Fcap.

8vo, 2s. fid. net.
AN ESSENCE OF THE DUSK. Third Edition. Fcap.

8vo, 2S. 6d. net.
THE ASHES OF A GOD. Fcap. Svo, 3s. 6d. net.
BUBBLES OF THE FOAM. Fcap. 4to, 5s. net. Also

Fcap. Svo, 3s. 6d. net.

Baring-Gould (S.). THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONA-
PARTE. Illustrated. Second Edition. Wide Royal Svo, 10s. 6d. net.

THE TRAGEDY OF THE C^SARS : A Study of
THE Characters of the Cesars of the Julian and Claudian
Houses. Illustrated. Seventh Edition. Royal Svo, los. 6d. net.

SONGS OF THE WEST. Folk-Songs of Devon and Corn-
wall. Collected from the Mouths of the People. By S. Basing-
GouLD, H. Fleetwood SHEPPARt>, and F. W. Busseli.. New and
Revised Edition, under the musical editorship of Cecil J Sharp.
Large Imperial Svo, 5s. net.

Belloc (H.). PARIS. Illustrated, Third Edition, Crown

Svo, 6s.
MARIE ANTOINETTE. Illustrated. Third Edition.

Demy Svo, 15s. net.
THE PYRENEES. Illustrated. Second Edition. Demy

Svo, 7s. 6d. net.
HILLS AND THE SEA. Fourth Edition. Fcap. Svo, 5s.
ON NOTHING AND KINDRED SUBJECTS. Third

Edition. Fcap. Svo, 5s.
ON EVERYTHING. Third Edition, Fcap. Svo, 5s.
ON SOiMETHING. Second Edition. Fcap. Svo, 5s,
FIRST AND LAST. ."Second Edition. Fcap. Svo, 55,
THIS AND THAT AND THE OTHER. Fcap. Svo, Ss.
BickneU (Ethel E.). PARIS AND HER TREASURES,

Illustr.ilcd. Fcap. Svo, round corner.?, 5":. net.

2 MESSRS. METHUEN'S PUBLICATIONS

Bloemfontein (Bishop of). ARA CCELI : An Essay in

Mystical Theolchjv. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. net.
FAITH AND EXPERIENCE. Second Edilion. Crown
8vo, 3s. 6(1. net.

Brabant (F. G.). RAMBLES IN SUSSEX. Illustrated,

Crown 8vo, 6s.
Braid (James), Open Champion, 1901, 1905, 1906, 1908, and
1910. ADVANCED GOLF. Illustrated Seventh Edition. Demy
8vo, los. 6d. net.

Chesterton (G. K.). CHARLES DICKENS. With Two

Portraits in Photogravure. Se-Mnth Edition. Crown Svo, 6s.

TH E BALLAD OF THE WHITE HORSE. Fourth Edition.
Fcap. Svo, 5s.

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. Sixth Edition. Fcap. Svo, 5s.

TREMENDOUS TRIFLES. Fourth Edition. Fcap. Svo, 5s.

ALARMS AND DISCURSIONS. Second Edition. Fcap.

8vo, 5s.
A MISCELLANY OF MEN, Second Edition. Fcap. Svo, 5s,
Clouston (T, S.), UNSOUNDNESS OF MIND. Illus-

trated. Demy 8vo, 7s. 6d. net.
THE HYGIENE OF MIND. Illustrated. Sixth Edition.
Demy Svo, 7s. 6d. net.

Conrad (Joseph), THE MIRROR OF THE SEA:

Memories and Impressions. Third Edition. Fcap. Svo, ss.
Cox (J. Charles). RAMBLES IN SURREY. Illustrated,

Second Edition. Crown Svo, 6s.

Douglas (H, A.). VENICE AND HER TREASURES,

Illustrated. Fcap. Svo, round corners, 5s. net.

Fisher (H. A, L.). THE REPUBLICAN TRADITION

IN EUROPE. Crown Svo, 6s. net.

Gibbon (Edward). MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF

EDWARD GIBBON. Edited by G. Birkbeck Hill. Crown Evo,
6s.
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE.

Edited, with Notes, Appendices, and Maps, by J. B. BuRV. Illus-
trated. In Seven Volumes. Demy Svo, 10s. 6d, net each. Also in
Seven Volumes. Crown Svo, 6s. each.

Harper (Charles G.). THE AUTOCAR ROAD-BOOK,

Four Volumes, with Maps. Crown Svo, 7s. 6d. net each.
Vol. I. South of thu Thames.

Vol. II. North and South Wales and West Midlands.
Vol. III. East Anglia and East Midlands
•Vol. IV. North op England and South of Scotland.

Hassall (Arthur). THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON. Illus-
trated. Demy Svo, 7s. 6d. net.
Hutton (Edward). THE CITIES OF UMBRIA, Illus-

trated. Faur-th Edition. Crown 3\'0, 6s.
THE CITIES OF SPAIN, Illustrated. Foiirth Edition.
Crown Svo, 6s.

FLORENCE AND NORTHERN TUSCANY, WITH

GENOA. Illustrated. Second Edition. Crown Svo, 6s.

COUNTRY WALKS ABOUT FLORENCE. Illustrated,

Second Edition. Fcap. Svo, 5s. net.

IN UNKNOWN TUSCANY. With Notes by William

Hevu'ood. Illustrated Second Edition. Demy Svo, 7s. 6d. net.

ROME. Illustrated, lliird Edition. Crown Svo, 6s.

MESSRS. METIIUEN'S PUBLICATIONS 3

SIENA AND SOUTHERN TUSCANY. Illustrated.

Second Edition. Crown 8vo, Cs.

VENICE AND VENETIA. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 6s.

THE CitlES OF LOMBARDY. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 6s.

Inge (W. R.). CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM. (The Bampton
Lectures for 1899.) Second and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo, 5s. net.

Julian (Lady), Anchoress at Norwich, a.d. 1373. REVELA-
TIONS OF DIVINE LOVE. A Version from the MS. in the
British Museum. Edited by Grace Warrack. l^ourth Edition.
Crown 8vo, qs. 6d.

Kipling (Rudyard). BARRACK - ROOM BALLADS.

108M Thousand. Thirty-Second Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. Also Fcap.
8vo, leather, 5s. net.

THE SEVEN SEAS. Sg/A Thousand. Nineieenth Edition.

Crown 8vo, 6s. Also Fc:ip. 8vo, leather, 5s. net.
THE FIVE NATIONS, '|^nd Thousand. Ninth Edition.

Crown 8vo, 6s. Also Fcap. 8vo, leather, 5s. net.
DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES. Twenty -first Edition. Crown

8vo, 6s. Also Fcap. 8vo, leather, 55. net.

Lamb (Charles and Mary), THE COMPLETE WORKS.

Edited, with Notes, by E. V. Lucas. In Six Volumes. Fcap. 8vo,
5S. each.

Lodge (Sir OliYcr). THE SUBSTANCE OF FAITH,

ALLIED WITH SCIENCE: A Catechism for Parents and
Teach PRS. Eleventh Edition. Crown 8vo, 2s. net.

MAN AND THE UNIVERSE: A Study of the Influ-
ence OF THE Advance in Scientific Knowlf.dge upon our
UNDERSTANDING OF CHRISTIANITY. Ninth Edition. Crown 8vo,
5s. net.

THE SURVIVAL OF MAN : A Study in Unrecognised

Human Faculty. Fifth and Cheaper Edition. Crown 8vo, 5s. net.
REASON AND BELIEF. Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo,
3s. 6d. net.

MODERN PROBLEMS. Crown 8vo, 5s. net.

Lucas (E. Y.). THE LIFE OF CHARLES LAMB.

Illustrated. Fifth and Revised Edition in One Volume. Demy 8vo,
7s. 6d. net.

A WANDERER IN FLORENCE. Illustrated. Crown

8vo, 6s.
A WANDERER IN HOLLAND. Illustrated. Fourteenth

Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s.

A WANDERER IN LONDON. Illustrated. Twelfth

Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s.

A WANDERER IN PARIS. Illustrated. Ninth Edition.
Crown 8vo, 6s. Also Fcap. 8vo, Gilt top, !;s.

A GUIDE TO THE BRITISH PICTURES IN THE

NATIONAL GALLERY. Illustrated. Fcap. 8vo, 3s. 6d. net.

THE OPEN ROAD : A Little Book for Wayfarers.

Nineteenth Edition. Fcap. 8vo, 5s.; India paper, 7s. 6d. 'Also
Illustrated in Colour. Crown 410, 15s. net.

THE FRIENDLY TOWN: A Little Book for the

Urbane. Seventh Edition. Fcap 8vo, 5s. ; leather, 5s. net.
FIRESIDE AND SUNSHINE. Sixth Edition. Fcap.

8vo, 5s ; leather, 5s. net.

CHARACTER AND COMEDY. Sixth Edition. Fcap.

8vo, 5s ; leather, ss. net.

THE GENTLEST ART: A Choice of Letters by

Entertaining Hands. Seventh Edition. Fcap. Svo, 5s.

4 MESSRS. METIIUEN'S PUBLICATIONS

THE SECOND POST. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo, Ss. ;

leather, $%. net.

HER INFINITE VARIETY: A Feminine Portrait

GAi.LE«tY. Sixth Edition. Fcap. 8vo, ss. ; leather, 5s. net.
COOD COMPANY: A Rally OF Men. Second Edition.

Fcap. 8vo, 5s. ; leather, 5s. net.
ONE DAY AND ANOTHER. Fifth Edition. Fcap. 8vo, Ss. ;

leather, 5s. net.

OLD LAMPS FOR NEW. Fourth Edition. Fcap. 8vo, 5s.
LISTENER'S LURE: An Oblique Narration. Ninth

Edition. Fcap. 8vo, ss.
MR. INGLESIDE. Ninth Edition. Fcap. Svo, 5s.
OVER BEMERTON'S : An Easy-going Chroniclu.

Tenth Edition. Fcap. Svo, ss.

McDougall (William). AN INTRODUCTION TO

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. Sixth Edition, Revised. Cr. Svo, ss. net.

BODY AND MIND: A History and A Defence ok

Animism. With Diagrams. Demy 8vo, los. 6d. net.

Maeterlinck (Maurice). THE BLUE BIRD: A Fairy

Pi.AV IN Six Acts. Translated by Ai exam>f.r Tf.ixeira df.

Mattos. Fcap. Bvo, deckle edges, 3s. 6d. net. An Edition Illustrated

in Colour by F. Caylev Robinson is also published. Crown 410,

gilt top, 21S. net.

Oi"the above book Thirty-two Editions in all have been issued.
MARY MAGDALENE. Third Edition. Fcap. Svo,

3s. 6d. net.
DEATH. Fourth Edition. Fcap. Svo, 3s. 6d. net.
Kevill (Lady Dorothy). MY OWN TIMES. Edited by iicr

Son. Illustrated. Seei>>id Edition. Demy Svo, 15s. net.

Oxford (M. N.). A HANDBOOK OF NURSING. Si.rth

Edition, Revised. Crown Svo, js. 6d. net.

Petrie (W. M. Flinders). A HISTORY OF EGYPT.

Illustrated. In Si.x Volumes. Crown Svo, 6s. each.

Vol. I. From the 1st to XVIth Dynasty. Seventh Edition.

Vol. II. The XVIIth and XVIIIth Dynasties. Fourth
Edition.

Vol. III. XIXth to XXXth Dynasties.

Vol. IV. Egypt under the Ptole.maic Dynasty. J. P.
Mahaffv.

Vol. V. Egypt under Roman Rule. J. G. Mii.ne.

Vol. VI. Egypt in the Middle Ages. Stanley Lane-
Poole.
Porter (G. R.). THE PROGRESS OF THE NATION.

A New Edition. Edited by F. W. Hirst. Demy Svo, 21s. net.

Stevenson (R. L.). THE LETTERS OF ROBERT

LOUIS STEVENSON TO HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
Selected and Edited by Sir Sidney Colvin. Four Volumes. Tlmd
Edition. Fcap. Svo, ';s. each ; leather, <;s. net each.

Thompson (Francis). SELECTED POEMS OF

FRANCIS THOMPSON. With a Biographical Note by Wilfrid
Meynei.l. With a Portrait in Photogravure. Seventh Edition.
Fcap. Svo, 5S. net.

Tilcston (Mary W.). DAILY STRENGTH FOR DAILY

NEEDS. Nineteenth Edition. Mediuni i6mo, as. 6d. net; lamb-
skin, 3s. 6d. net. Also an edition in superior binding, 6s.

THE STRONGHOLD OF HOPE. Medium l6mo, 23. 6d.
net.

MESSRS. METIIUEN'S PUBLICATIONS 5

Turner (Major General Sir Alfred E.). SIXTY YEARS

OF A SOLDIERS LIFE. With a Frontispiece. Demy 8vo,
I2S. 6d. /let.

Underbill (Evelyn). MYSTICISM. A Study in the Nature

and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness. Fourth Edition,
Demy 8vo, 15s. net.

Yaughan (H. M.)- FLORENCE AND HER TREA-
SURES. Illustrated. Fcap. 8vo, round corners, 5s. net.

Wade (G. W.) and (J. H.). RAMBLES IN SOMERSET.

Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 6s.

Y/agner (Richard). RICHARD WAGNER'S MUSIC

DRAM.\S : Interpretations, embodying Wagner's own explanations.
Bv Alice Leighton Cleather and Basil Crumi-. Fcap. 8vo,
2S. 6d. eax:h.
The Ri.NG of the Nibelung, Fifth EdUion; Parsifal, Lohengrin,
The Holy Grail, Second Edition Enlarged; Tristan and Isolde ;
Tannhauser and the Masteksi.n'Geks of Nuremberg.

Waterhouse (Elizabeth). A LITTLE BOOK OF LIFE

AND DEATH. Thirteenth Edition. Small Pott 8vo, cloth, is. 6d.
net ; leather, 2s. 6d. net.
COMPANIONS OF THE WAY. Being Selections for

Morning and Evening Re.iding. Chosen and Arranged by Elizabeth
Waterhouse. Large Crown 8vo, 5s. net.

Wilde (Oscar). THE WORKS OF OSCAR WILDE. In

Twelve Volumes. Fcap. 8vo, 5s. net each volume.

I. Lord Arthur S^vile's Crime and the Portrait of Mr.
W. H. II. The Duchess of Padua, hi. Poems, iv. Ladv
Windermere's Fan. v. A Woman of No Importance, vi. An
Ideal Husband, vii. The Importance of bei.ng Earnest, viii.
A House of Pomegranates, ix. Intentions, x. De Profundis
AND Prison Letters, xi. Essays, xii. Salom£, A Florentine
Tragedy, and La Sainte Courtisane.
Y/iiding (Anthony F.), Lawn-Tennis Champion 1910-1911.
ON THE COURT AND OFF. Illustrated. Fourth Edition.
Crown Svo, 5s. net.

The Antiquary's Booka

General Editor, J. Charles Cox
Illustrated. Demy Svo, 7s. 6d. net
Arch-«olocv and Fai.se Anthmjitifs ; The Bells of England ; The
Brasses of England ; Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian
■ Times; The Domesday Inquest; The Castles and Walled
Towns of England; English Church Furniture; English
Costume, from Prehistoric Times to the End of the Eighteenth Cen-
tury; English Monastic Life; English Seals; Folk-Lore as
AN Historical Science; The Gilds and Companies of London;
The Manor and MANot<iAL Records ; The Mediaeval Hos-
pitals of England; Old English Libraries; Old Service
Books of the English Church ; Parish Life in Medi.eval
England; The Parish Registers of England; Remains of
the Prehistoric Agk in England; The Roman Era in
Britain; Romano-British Buildings and Earthworks; Thb
RovAL Forests of England ; Shrines of British Saints.

The Arden Shakespeare

Demy Svo, 2s 6d. net
An edition of Shakespeare in Single Plays. Edited with a
full Introduction, Textual Notes, and a Commentary at the foot
of the page.

Thirty-three Vohimes art now ready.

C MESSRS. METIIUEN'S PUBLICATIONS

Classics of Art

Edited by Dr. J. 11. W. Laing
Illustrated. Wide Royal 8vo,
from los. 6d. net to 25s. net
(The Art of the Greeks ; The Art ok the Romans ; Chardin ;
donatkllo; florentine sculptors of the renaissance;
George Romnev; Ghirlandaio; Michelangelo; Raphael; Rem-
brandt's Etchings; Ruhens; Tintoretto; Titian; Turner's
Sketches and Drawings ; Velazquez.

The "Complete" Series

Illustrated. Demy 8vo, from 5s. net to Ijs. net

Thh Complete Association Footballer ; The Cc*»?i,ete Billiard
Player; The Complete Cook; The Complete Cricketer; The
Complete Foxhunter ; The Complete Golfer ; The Complete
Hockey-Player ; The Complete Lawn Tennis Player ; The
Complete Motorist; The Complete Mountaineer; The Com-
plete Oarsman; The Complete Photographer; The Complete
Rugby Footballer, on the New Zealand System ; The
Complete Shot ; 'The Complete Swimmer ; The Complete
Yachtsman.

Tiie Connoissear's Library

Illustrated. Wide Royal 8vo, 25s. net

^English Furniture; English Coloured Books; Etchings;
European Enamels; Fine Books; Glass; Goldsmiths' and
Silversmiths' Work; Illuminated Manuscripts; Ivories;
Jewellery ; Mezzotints ; Miniatures ; Porcelain ; Seals ; Wood
Sculpturb.

The "Home Life" Scries

Illustrated. Demy Svo, 6s. to los. 6d. net

HoMK Life in America; Home Life in France; Home Life in
Germany; Hume Life in Holland; Home Life in Italy;
Home Life in Norway; Home Life in Russia; Home Life in
Spain.

The Library of Devotion

With Introductions and (where necessary) Notes
Small Pott Svo, cloth, 2s. ; leather, 23. 6d. net
The Confessions of' St. Augustine; The Imitation of Christ;
The Christian Year; Lyra Innocentium ; The Temple; A
Book of Devotions ; A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy
Life; A Guide to Eternity; The Inner Way; On the Lovb
OF God; The Psalms of David; Lyra Apostolica ; The Song
OF Songs; The Thoughts of Pascal; A Manual of Consola-
tion from the Saints and Fathers; Devotions from the
Apocrypha ; The Spiritual Combat ; The Devotions of St.
Anselm ; Bishop Wilson's Sacra Privata ; Grace .^bounding
TO THE Chief of Sinners ; Lyra Sacra : A Book of Sacred Verse ;
A Day Book from the Saints and Fathers ; A Little Book-
OF Heavenly Wisdom; Light, Life, and Love; An Intro-
duction to the Devout Life; The Little Flowers of the
Glorious Messer St. Francis and op his Friars; Death and
Immortality ; The Spiritual Guide Devotions for Every
Day of the Week and the Great Festivals ; Preces Privatae ;

UORAE MySTICAK.

MESSRS. METHUEN'S PUBLICATIONS f

Little Books on Art

Illustrated, Demy i6mo, 2s. 6d. net

Each volume consists of about 200 pages, and contains from
30 to 40 Illustrations, including a Frontispiece in Photogravure.

Albrecht DUrer ; The Arts of Japan ; Bookplates ; Botticelli ;
Borne-Jones ; Cellini ; Christian Symbolism; Christ in Art;
Claude; Constable; Corot ; Enamels; Frederic Leighton ;
George Romnev; Greek Art; Greuze and Boucher; Holbein;
Illuminated Manuscripts; Jewellery; John Hoppner ; Sir
Joshua Reynolds; Millet; Miniatures; Our Lady in Art;
Raphael ; Rembrandt ; Rodin ; Turner ; Vandvck { Velazquez ;
Watts.

' The Little Guidea

Illustrated by E. H. New and other Artists,

and from Photographs

Small Pott 8vo, cloth, 2s. 6d. net ; leather, 3s. 6d. net

Cambridge and its Colleges; The Channel Islands ; The English
Lakes; The Isle of Wight; London ; The Malvern Country;
North Wales; Oxford and its Colleges; Shakespeare's
Country ; St. Paul's Cathedral ; Westminster Abbey.

Berkshire; Buckinghamshire; Cheshire; Cornwall; Derbyshire;
Devon; Dorset; Essex; Hampshire; Hertfordshire; Kent;
Kerry; Leicester and Rutland; Middlesex; Monmouthshire;
Norfolk; Northamptonshire; Northumberland; Notting-
hamshire; Oxfordshire; Shropshire; Somerset; Stafford-
shire; Suffolk: Surrey; Sussex; Wiltshire; The East
Riding of Yorkshire; The North Riding of Yorkshire; Thk
West Riding of Yorkshire (3s. 6d. net and 4s. 6d. net).

Brittany ; Normandy ; Rome ; Sicily.

The Westminstep Coinmeutariea

Edited by Walter Lock

Demy 8vo, 6s. to los. 6d.

Acts of the Apostles ; I. Corinthians ; Exodos ; Ezekibl ;
Genesis; Hebrews; Isaiah; Job; St. Jaues.

Fiye Books by R. S. Surtees

With the original Illustrations in Colour by J. Leech and others
Fcap. 8vo, 3s. 6d. net each

Ask Mamma; Handlev Cross; Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities;
Mk. Sponge's Snorting Tour ; Mr. Facev Romford's Hounds.

Three Plays

Fcap. 8vo, 2s. net
The Honeymoon; Kismet; Milestones.

The "Young" Series

Illustrated. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d. net to 6s.

The Voung Botanist; The Young Carpenter; The Young
Kikctrician; The Voung ENGi.-iEEJi; lae YouivG Naturausx J

Int. /OU.NG OKiMTaOLOGlbT.

8 MESSRS. METHUEXS PUBLICATIONS

A History of England

In Seven Volumes

Edited by Charles Oman

Demy 8vo, los. 6d. net each Volume

England before the Norman Conquest; England ukder the

Normans AND Ancevins (1066-1272); England unueh the Tuours

(1485-1603); England under the Siuarts (1603-1714); Englano

UNDER THE HaNOVEKIANS (1714-1815).

Fiction

Novels by E. Maria Albanesi, Mrs. J. O. Arnold, Richard Bagot,
H. C. Bailey, Mrs. Belloc Lowni'ES, Arnold Bennett. G. A.
Birmingham, Marjome Bowen, Joseph Conrad, Dorothy Conyers,
Marie Corelli, Frank Danuy, Beatrice Harkaden, R. S. Hichens,
Anthony Hope, W. W. Jacobs, Henry James, E. V. Lucas, Lucas
Malet, a. E. W. Mason, W. B. Maxwell, Arthur Morrison,
Oliver Onions, Baroness Orczy, John Oxenham, Sir Gilbert
Parker, Alice Perrin, " Q," W. Pett Ridge, Mrs. A. Sidgwick, J. C.
Snaith, Stanley Weyman, C. N. and A. M. Williamson, and Doi.f
Wvllardb.

Methuen'B Two-Shilling Novels

Crown 8vo, 2s. net
Robert Hichens, Felix ; The Call of the Blood ; Anthony Hope,
A Servant of the Public ; Lucas M.alet, Colonel Enderby's
Wife ; Sir Richard Calmady ; A. E. W. Mason, Clementina ;
W. B. Maxwell, Vivien ; John Oxenham, The Gate of the Desert ;
Sir Gilbert Parker, The Seats of the Mighty ; E. Phillpotts, The
Secret Woman ; Mrs. Sidgwick, The Severins ; C. N. and A. M.
Williamson, My Friend the Chauffeur ; The Botor Chaperon ; The
Car of Destiny and its Errand in Spain ; The Princess
Virginia ; M.-ix Pemberton, The Mystery of the Green Heart ;
DolfWyllarde, The Unofficial Honeymoon.

Methuen's Shilling Novels

Arnold Bennett, Anna of the Five Towns ; G. A. Birmingham,
Spanish Gold; Marie Corelli, Jane; The Mighty Atom; Sir A.
Conan Doyle, Round the Red Lamp; Louise Gerard, The
Golden Centipede ; Robert Hichens, Barbary Sheep ; The
Woman with the Fan; Baroness von Hutten, The Halo; W. B.
M.nxwell, The Guarded Flame ; Arthur Morrison, Tales of
Mean Streets ; E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Missing: Delora ;
John Oxenham, The Long Road; Mrs. Henry de la Pasture, The
Tyrant ; Alice Perrin, The Charm ; Eden Phillpotts, The Secret
Woman ; Mrs. A. Sidgwick, The Severins ; E. Temple Thurston,
Mirage ; Pesgy Webling, Virginia Perfect ; Stanley J. Weyn::in,
Under the Red Robe; C. N. and A. M. Williamson, Lady Betty
across the Water; The Demon; W. W. Jacobs, Light Freights.

Methuen's Shilling Library

Graham Balfour, The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson ; S. Pari-j-
Gould, The Vicar of Morwenstow ; A. C Benson, The Life of
Tennyson; John Boyes, John Boyes, King of the Wa-Kikuyu;
W. G. Collingu-ood, The Life of John Ruskin ; Tickner Edsvar<Vs,
The Lore of the Honey-Eee; James M. Glover, Jimmy Glover,
His Book ; Sir Oliver Lodge, Man and the Universe ; Georsic
Hor.^ce Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his
Son ; E. V. Lucas, A Little of Everything ; Maurice RL^cier-
linck, Mar^ Magdalene ; The Blue Bird ; C. V. G. Mastcnr.an,
The Condition of England ; Lady Dorothy Nevill, Under Five
Reigns; Robert Louis Stevenson, Vailima Letters; Leo T.lstny,
Sevastopol and other Storie.s ; Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ;
De Profiindls ; Lady Windermere's Fan ; Lord Arthur
Savile's Crime ; Selected Poeras ; Sir Evelyn Wood, From
Widshipman to Field-Marshal. / , , / /-> — , ■»

NV-SOl^^"

;N^' ^^Aavaani^"^

'^/id]Ai;iiiit'

a^ii'i^^'

iUV^^

^IYER% .,.K;lOSANr.flfi;,>

W-SOi

^•SOi

fvARYA

^ ^

.vin"^A?;nnfr.^

1,?^

^

(^'

A,OFCAIIFO% ^

''^OM

•fVl]:

nil II li' !' '!

L 006 671 333 0

UC SOUTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILlPi'

AA 000 370 698 3